Mrs. Crump's 9th Clay Animation Class

CLAY ANIMATION

Clay Animation is a semester long process. In the end the student will have created a wonderful film that they've created from scratch. 

1. Planning: The student are given a workbook where they create characters, background, storyboards, and write thoughts and drafts of story line.

Students also investigated the history of Clay Animation through the internet. 

2. Construction: After student work in their workbooks for what seem like forever, they finally start the hand on process. Students start with the backgrounds or sets. They create them in a cardboard box using paint, glitter, and a variety of other materials.

Also in the construction faze is building props. Students use legos to create structures such as castles, houses, trees and other necessary props. 

Here is an example of a tree. 

3. Clay Figures: Students have to create their characters in their movies with clay and wire. 

First students make an armature to support the clay figures. 

After their armature is made students use clay to cover the armature and start the transformation from wire to character.

Here is an example of a character before and after. 

Now that we have our characters and backgrounds made we're working on taking pictures. This is the "Stop Motion" part of Clay Animation. The students take still pictures of each seen.